I picked one up last week. Really surprised by how good the thing sounds for under $500.
I've blathered on before about various DACs that I've owned such as Red Wine, MHDT Havana, Tube Audio Design's TADAC and the Empirical Audio Turbo-3 which was paired to these DACs with very spendy digital cabling, both USB and SPDIF. I've also owned the Bel Canto DAC3 and Benchmark DAC1. Anyway....as small/unassuming as the RDAC is, the sound is incredibly clean/clear and non fatiguing. That's with a 12' cheap USB cable.
I'm running it through a Classe SSP pre/pro, into a tube amp and then into a $6k+ pair of Living Voice Speakers. Macbook and a demo of Amarra Junior (also very nice software so far). I know, the Classe is not ideal, but.....
I've blathered on before about various DACs that I've owned such as Red Wine, MHDT Havana, Tube Audio Design's TADAC and the Empirical Audio Turbo-3 which was paired to these DACs with very spendy digital cabling, both USB and SPDIF. I've also owned the Bel Canto DAC3 and Benchmark DAC1. Anyway....as small/unassuming as the RDAC is, the sound is incredibly clean/clear and non fatiguing. That's with a 12' cheap USB cable.
I'm running it through a Classe SSP pre/pro, into a tube amp and then into a $6k+ pair of Living Voice Speakers. Macbook and a demo of Amarra Junior (also very nice software so far). I know, the Classe is not ideal, but.....